Insurance

Automobile Insurance
Health Insurance
Earthquake Insurance
Miscellaneous

Automobile Insurance

SB 81 (Speier-D) Motor vehicle insurance

Permits an injured, insured owner of a motor vehicle to recover damages under the uninsured motorist coverage of his/her policy if he/she is struck by his/her own insured car while it is being operated without his/her permission in the course of criminal activity. Specifies that the criminal activity must be one to which the injured insured is not a party and must be documented in a police report.

Chapter 95, Statutes of 2001

SB 708 (Speier-D) Insurance mediation

Expands the earthquake mediation program to include automotive and residential insurance claims.

Chapter 727, Statutes of 2001

SB 834 (Escutia-D) Insurers: underserved communities

Requires insurers selling private passenger automobile liability policies or private passenger automobile physical damage policies to annually submit to the Commissioner of the State Department of Insurance, for examination, a record of loss experience, per exposure for each geographic area for examination and a community service statement for each ZIP code served by the insurer. Establishes civil penalties for failure to comply with a data call.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 5 (Calderon-D) Insurance premiums

Prohibits the use of a driver's credit rating to determine the driver's insurance premium.

(In Senate Insurance Committee)

AB 512 (John Campbell-R) California Automobile Assigned.

Requests the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan's annual report on the status of the Los Angles County Low Cost Automobile Insurance Pilot Program to include the percentage of low-cost auto insurance purchasers who have previously purchased auto insurance within the last two years.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 541 (Maddox-R) Motor vehicle insurance

Provides that a person is not qualified to purchase a Good Driver Discount policy, if he or she has been incarcerated for a period in excess of 30 days during the three- year period immediately preceding the effective date of the policy.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1293 (Hollingsworth-R) Financial responsibility

States legislative intent that the State Department of Motor Vehicles continue to develop an electronic reporting system for evidence of financial responsibility.

(In Senate Rules Committee)

AB 1488 (Chavez-D) Insurance premiums

Allows an automobile insurer to refund premiums to policyholders, who are claim free, by implementing a prospective discount that meets certain requirements.

(On Senate Third Reading File)

Health Insurance

SB 37 (Speier-D) Health insurance: clinical trials

Requires health care service plans and certain disability insurers to provide coverage for all routine patient care costs relative to the treatment of an enrollee or insured diagnosed with cancer and accepted in a clinical trial meeting specified requirements, if the enrollee's treating physician, who is providing covered health care services under their health plan contract, recommends participation in the clinical trial after determining such participation has a meaningful potential to benefit the enrollee or insured.

Chapter 172, Statutes of 2001

SB 59 (Escutia-D) Healthy families

Requires the State Department of Health Services and the Major Risk Medical Insurance Board to develop and administer up to five demonstration projects to expand on the Rural Health Demonstration Projects. Stipulates that the purpose of the demonstration projects shall be to fund health care providers and collaborative health care networks to target special populations, including immigrants, homeless, and those with HIV/AIDS, among others.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 67 (Burton-D) State employees: health benefits

Appropriates $10,322,000 to pay an average of 50 percent of the health benefit premium for increases for state employees that took effect on January 1, 2001, as specified.

Chapter 1, Statutes of 2001

SB 103 (Speier-D) Health coverage: continuity of care

Declares legislative intent with respect to continuity of care by health plans. A conference report is needed to solve this issue.

(In Conference Committee)

SB 117 (Speier-D) Health care service plans

Modifies an existing requirement when a health plan fails to pay an uncontested completed claim within 30 or 45 working days by requiring the plan to pay the greater of $15 each 365-day period or portion thereof or interest at the rate of 15 percent per annum, each of these time periods. Allows the Director of the State Department of Managed Health Care, if a plan is found to be in noncompliance with the payment of claims provisions, to require a plan to assume responsibility, for a specified time period, for the payment of claims from any provider groups or other entities to whom the plan delegates claims payment responsibilities.

Vetoed by the Governor

SB 146 (Haynes-R) Health care plans

Requires the Medi-Cal program to pay the copayments for drugs and office visits of persons who are eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal, that would otherwise be required under the terms of the health care plan in which they are enrollees, but not allowed under existing Medi-Cal law.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 276 (Speier-D) Health care

Requires selected school districts to ask the parent or guardian of each pupil each year, as part of the process for updating parental and pupil information, whether or not they would like the school to provide information and assistance in obtaining free or low-cost health insurance.

(In Assembly Education Committee)

SB 279 (Speier-D) Health care service plans

Requires health care service plans that offer a plan that covers hospital, medical or surgical expenses to also offer a plan to families whose income is greater than 250 percent of the federal poverty level that covers children's services.

(In Senate Insurance Committee)

SB 283 (Speier-D) Healthy Families Program

Provides that the family contribution paid to the Healthy Families Program for the first full month of coverage under a health plan, shall also be payment in full for any portion of the month immediately prior to the first full month of coverage.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 454 (Senate Insurance Committee) Insurance

Defines the term "health insurance" and "specialized health insurance" by the types of the disability insurance policies included or excluded within the definition.

Chapter 277, Statutes of 2001

SB 455 (Senate Insurance Committee) Health insurance

Provides technical cleanup language for health insurance bills SB 764, SB 1988, and AB 2903 of 2000.

Chapter 328, Statutes of 2001

SB 456* (Speier-D) Health insurance

Establishes a statutory framework to meet the federal requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996 and specifies the responsibilities of the statewide Office of HIPPA Implementation within the State Health and Human Services Agency to ensure statewide HIPPA compliance.

Chapter 635, Statutes of 2001

SB 458 (Escutia-D) Health care service plans

Provides that a health care service plan or managed care entity's liability for its breach of duty of care to provide medically necessary health care services to its subscribers and enrollees, shall be determined in a court of law. Provides that any prohibited waiver of a person's rights under the statutory right to sue, shall also prohibit a contract requirement that the subscriber or enrollee waive his/her right to a jury trial through the use of a pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clause. Does not affect the right of the parties to voluntarily agree to arbitration upon the arising of the dispute.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 461 (Torlakson-D) Health benefits

Requires the State Teachers' Retirement System to establish and administer a high deductible Catastrophic Prescription Drug Insurance Program and that the program be effective January 1, 2003.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

SB 493 (Sher-D) Healthy Families Program

Implements a simplified eligibility process as part of individuals and families in the Medi-Cal and Health Families Program.

Chapter 897, Statutes of 2001

SB 573 (Burton-D) Health coverage: acupuncture

Requires every health care service plan and disability insurer issuing policies on a groupwide basis, to provide acupuncture coverage under those terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties, as specified.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 599 (Chesbro-D) Health care coverage

Requires health care service plans and disability health insurers to provide coverage for the medically necessary treatment of substance related disorders as listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV in a nondiscriminatory manner on the same basis as any other medical care.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

SB 604 (Vasconcellos-D) Health care service plans

Creates the Health and Wellness Promotion Advisory subcommittee within the State Department of Managed Health Care Clinical Advisory Panel to advise the Legislature on revisions of medical testing and services believed to be appropriate for health promotion, requires health care service plans and disability (health) insurers to provide a health promotion benefit to set and annually augment the maximum payment to providers for required testing and services.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 681 (Figueroa-D) Healthy Families Program

Requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to expand eligibility under the program to uninsured employees of licensed child care facilities and the minor children of those employees.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

SB 686 (Ortiz-D) Health care service plans

Requires the State Department of Managed Health Care to conduct a study to evaluate the relationship between the amount of fees and reimbursements paid by health care service plans and the actual cost of regulating individual plans of classes of plans.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 719* (Poochigian-R) Healthy Families Program

Creates a refundable tax credit for health insurance paid by a taxpayer for the individual, spouse, or dependent eligible to receive benefits under the Health Families Program.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 785 (Ortiz-D) Healthy Families Program

Makes minor changes to the Healthy Families Program (HFP) consistent with California's revised waiver request to the federal government to extend HFP benefits to parents in families with income up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 801 (Speier-D) Health care coverage

Establishes an assisted negotiation process for resolving contract renewal disputes between provider organizations and health plans or insurers.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1022 (Soto-D) State employees: health benefits

Augments the Budget Act of 2000 to pay 50 percent of specified state employees' health benefit premium increase during the period of January 1, to June 30, 2001.

Chapter 22, Statutes of 2001

SB 1038 (Polanco-D) Immunizations: Healthy Families Program

Enacts the California Healthy Families Vaccine Purchase Act. Authorizes the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to allocate sufficient funds out of moneys appropriated for purposes of the Healthy Families Program to the State Department of Health Services for the purchase of covered vaccines, as defined, for the safe and secure storage of covered vaccines at warehouse facilities licensed by the California State Board of Pharmacy, and for their free-of-charge distribution to qualifying practitioners.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 1040 (Machado-D) Health care plan arbitration clauses

Provides specified protections for consumers in health care arbitration.

(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee; reconsideration granted)

SB 1092 (Sher-D) Health care service plans

Provides a definition of grievance for purposes of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

SB 1219 (Romero-D) Health coverage: cervical cancer

Requires a health care service plan contract and a disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2002, that includes coverage for the treatment or surgery of cervical cancer to provide coverage for an annual cervical cancer screening test in accordance with deductible or copayment provisions contained in the plan contract or policy that includes the conventional pap test and the option of any cervical cancer screening test approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, upon, the referral of the patient's health care provider.

Chapter 380, Statutes of 2001

SCR 35 (Perata-D) Children's Health Insurance Month

Proclaims September 2001 as Children's Health Insurance Month, and encourages outreach to increase the enrollment of children in the Healthy Families Program and the Medi-Cal program.

Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2001

AB 32 (Richman-R) Healthy Families Program

Creates the California Health Care Program (Cal-Health) to coordinate Medi-Cal and the Health Families Program for the purpose of reducing administrative costs by simplifying income and resource methodologies and other eligibility rules, and application, enrollment, retention, and bridging procedures between the two programs. Requires the State Department of Health Services and the State Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to carry out the duties and functions of Cal-Health.

(In Senate Appropriations Committee)

AB 39* (Thomson-D) Tax credits: health insurance

Enacts the Small Employer Health Coverage Incentive Act of 2001, which authorizes a refundable credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2002, for amounts paid or incurred during the taxable year by an eligible employer for health coverage provided to an eligible individual and that individual's dependent or dependents. Calculates the credit on the basis of an amount equal to 50 percent of the monthly health insurance premium during the taxable year for those eligible individuals that do not pay more than 25 percent of their health care costs.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 142 (Richman-R) Health care service plans

Prohibits a health care service plan contract from requiring or allowing a health care service provider to assume or be at any financial risk for certain designated items.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 207 (Matthews-D) Health insurance

Requires, starting July 1, 2002, health care plans and disability insurers that offer prescription drug benefits to issue each enrollee a uniform card containing specified information.

Chapter 622, Statutes of 2001

AB 482 (Cedillo-D) Healthy Families Program

Expands the Healthy Families Program (HFP) to small employers, provides a 50 percent state subsidy for employees with incomes below 250 percent of the Federal Poverty Level, and requires employees to pay the HFP premium with the employer required to pay the remaining costs.

(In Senate Insurance Committee)

AB 495* (Diaz-D) Children's health coverage

Establishes the Children's Health Initiative Matching Fund (Fund) and authorizes county agencies, local initiatives, and county organized health systems to seek and obtain funds to provide comprehensive health insurance coverage to children in families whose incomes do not exceed 300 percent of the federal poverty level, and who do not qualify for either Medi-Cal or the Healthy Families Program. Authorizes the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB) to administer the Fund and requires the MRMIB and the State Department of Health Services (DHS) to coordinate activities necessary to achieve federal approval and funding for the program. Requires the participating local government entities to submit intergovernmental transfers to the Fund as the nonfederal matching requirement for federal participation in the federal State Children's Health Insurance Program, and requires all administrative expenses of MRMIB and DHS to be paid from the Fund.

Chapter 648, Statutes of 2001

AB 532 (Cogdill-R) Health service plans

Requires the Legislative Analyst to study the operation of health care service plans in rural areas of this state and to report to the Legislature and the State Department of Managed Health Care on or before July 1, 2002, regarding the reasons plans have discontinued operating in those areas and incentives for plans to resume operating there.

Chapter 208, Statutes of 2001

AB 790* (Maldonado-R) Health care tax credit: farmworkers

Allows tax credit equal to 25 percent of the qualified expenses paid during the taxable year for preventive health care, a health plan or preventive care insurance provided to the taxpayer's employees who are qualified farmworkers.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 831 (Cardoza-D) Health benefits: state employees

Requires the state to pay for any increases in health benefit premiums for state employees implemented between January 1, 2002 and July 2, 2002, and establishes a committee to explore and develop innovative health benefit cost containment concepts.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

AB 938 (Cohn-D) Health care service plans: contracting

Requires a health care service plan to provide, upon request, a list of specified contracting health care providers within the enrollees or prospective enrollees general geographic area and adds additional information that health plans must provide on an existing disclosure form. Becomes operative on July 1, 2002.

Chapter 817, Statutes of 2001

AB 1154 (Ashburn-R) Breast and cervical cancer

Repeals the provisions of law for payment of application assistance fees to designated individuals or organizations for their assistance in completing applications for Healthy Families Program participation. Also repeals provisions providing that if an applicant's income documentation cannot be provided, the applicant's signed statement as to the value or amount of income shall be deemed to constitute verification.

(In Senate Health and Human Services Committee)

AB 1282 (Cardoza-D) Health care service plans

Provides that a health care service plan may not exclude an enrollee or potential enrollee solely on the grounds that the enrollee or potential enrollee does not reside within a particular region of the state.

(In Assembly Health Committee)

AB 1401 (Thomson-D) Health insurance market

Creates a three-year pilot program to change the individual health insurance market by reforming the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), Cal-COBRA, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act policies, individual conversion policies, and the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program.

(In Senate Insurance Committee)

AB 1503 (Nation-D) Health care service plans: mental health

Provides a process by which an enrollee of a health care service plan or an insured of a disability insurer may receive continuing mental health care from a non-participating provider when an employer changes health plans or disability insurer. Makes health care plans and disability insurers that provide coverage for continuing mental health care under this bill immune from liability for acts or omissions of a nonparticipating existing provider to new enrollees or insureds.

Chapter 531, Statutes of 2001

AB 1522 (Thomson-D) Health care coverage: continuity of care

States legislative intent to ensure that enrollees of health care plans receive continuity of care, an issue for conference in 2002, along with SB 103.

(In Conference)

AB 1600 (Keeley-D) Health care provider contracts

Allows any enrollee, subscriber, patient, health care provider or their representatives to file an action for equitable relief from any licensee as to any violation or threatened violation of the Knox-Keene Act. Requires the court to extend for 180 days a plan provider contract under litigation that is scheduled to expire while the litigation is pending, to provide continuing care to enrollees except where the plan is able to terminate the contract on specified grounds.

(On Assembly Inactive File)

Earthquake Insurance

SB 706 (Speier-D) California Earthquake Authority

Eliminates unearned premium from the definition of the California Earthquake Authority's usable capital and adds a definition of "unearned premium reserve," as specified.

(In Assembly Appropriations Committee)

SB 708 (Speier-D) Insurance

Expands an earthquake mediation program to include automotive and residential insurance claims, creates new requirements for insurance adjusters and insurers who adjust earthquake claims, and extends the sunset date on the earthquake mediation program.

Chapter 727, Statutes of 2001

AB 940 (Keeley-D) California Earthquake Authority

Increases the size of the California Earthquake Authority (Authority) from three to five members. Adds the Chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee and the Chairman of the Legislative Audit Committee to receive reports of the Authority of payment of claims, by the Authority, relative to a seismic event. Requires, in the event of a major seismic event, that the Joint Legislative Audit Committee review the seismic event report and evaluate whether an audit by the State Auditor is necessary and appropriate.

(On Senate Inactive File)

AB 1118 (Corbett-D) Seismic safety

Appropriates up to $1.5 million from the California Earthquake Recovery Fund to the State Department of Insurance (DOI) for purposes of extending the life of an existing residential retrofit program, operated by DOI, until December 1, 2004, and makes related changes.

Chapter 895, Statutes of 2001

AB 1182 (Calderon-D) California Earthquake Authority

Expands the authority of the California Earthquake Authority to enter into reinsurance agreements and capital market contracts.

(At Senate Desk)

Miscellaneous

SB 24 (Polanco-D) Financial investments

Enacts, until January 1, 2013, the California Certified Capital Company Act to establish an incentive program, using credits against gross premium taxes, for insurance companies to invest in certified capital companies in this state, which in turn would make investments in new or expanding businesses. This increase in investment capital flowing into new or expanding businesses is intended to contribute to employment growth and to expand and diversify the state's economic base.

(In Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)

SB 63* (Scott-D) Property casualty licensee

Clarifies that a property casualty licensee does not need to be licensed as a personal lines licensee, clarifies the lines of insurance that a personal lines licensee can sell, and clarifies the "grandfathering" statute governing applicants exempted from an examination for a personal lines license.

Chapter 174, Statutes of 2001

SB 80 (Speier-D) Insurance Conservation and Liquidation Office

Requires officers and employees of the Conservation and Liquidation Office to adhere to the same conflict of interest and financial disclosure requirements as employees of the State Department of Insurance.

Chapter 630, Statutes of 2001

SB 270 (Speier-D) Mortgage insurance

Requires a lender or other person making or arranging a loan, on which private mortgage insurance or mortgage guaranty insurance is maintained, to make certain disclosures about the borrower's potential right to cancel and specifies that cancellation may be based on various factors, including appreciation in property value based on a current appraisal. Becomes operative July 1, 2002.

Chapter 137, Statutes of 2001

SB 454 (Senate Insurance Committee) Mennonite Aid Plan

Expands the type of coverage in the Mennonite Aide Plan to include burglary and theft and mysterious disappearance.

Chapter 277, Statutes of 2001

SB 658 (Escutia-D) Insurance

Requires an insurer to provide certain insureds with information relating to unfair methods of competition and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance in its initial response to a claim. Modifies the standard form of fire insurance policy for this state relative to the obligations of the insured and insurer and to appraisals, adjusters, and loss requirements for a policy originated or renewed on and after January 1, 2002. Requires that all conditions applicable to loss requirements, appraisals, and adjusters contained in standard form fire insurance policies apply to residential property insurance polices, policies providing coverage for loss or damage caused by earthquake, and basic residential earthquake insurance policies that are originated or renewed on and after January 1, 2002. Requires the State Department of Insurance (DOI) to conduct a study quantifying the number of examinations under oath performed by carriers regulated by DOI and the number of contacts made by consumers regarding alleged concerns.

Chapter 583, Statutes of 2001

SB 708 (Speier-D) Insurance Commissioner: complaints

Prohibits the State Insurance Commissioner (IC) from declining to investigate a complaint for any of the following reasons: the insured is represented by an attorney in a dispute with an insurer, or is in mediation or arbitration; the insured has a civil action against an insurer; or the complaint is from an attorney, if the complaint is based upon evidence or reasonable beliefs about violations of law known to an attorney because of a civil action. Requires that a letter or legal opinion signed by the IC or State Department of Insurance's chief counsel that is prepared in response to an inquiry from an insured and that discusses the application of the Insurance Code or the IC's regulations in general or in connection with specific facts be made public.

Chapter 727, Statutes of 2001

Similar legislation is AB 1181 (Calderon-D) which is in Assembly Judiciary Committee.

SB 798 (Speier-D) Insurance Commissioner: contributions

Prohibits contributions to the State Insurance Commissioner from persons regulated by the State Department of Insurance (DOI) or from attorneys and law firms doing business with the DOI.

(Failed passage in Assembly Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)

SB 834 (Escutia-D) Insurers: underserved communities

Requires insurers selling homeowners' multiple peril insurance, commercial multiple peril insurance, fire insurance policies, private automobile liability policies, or private passenger automobile physical damage policies to annually submit to the State Insurance Commissioner for examination on a record of loss experience, per exposure, for each geographic area for examination and a community service statement for each ZIP Code served by the insurer. Establishes civil penalties for failure to comply with a data call.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

SB 1136 (Polanco-D) Insurance

Repeals the sunset clause in four sections of the Insurance Code that establish conditions and limitations on advertising by surplus line brokers, nonadmitted insurers, and special lines surplus line brokers.

Chapter 448, Statutes of 2001

AB 268 (Wayne-D) Structured settlement payment rights

Enacts additional disclosure and procedural requirements to the law regulating structured settlement buy-outs in order to better protect consumers who sell their settlements. The main new requirement is that the transferee (settlement buyer) must petition and obtain court approval of the sale in order for the transfer to be in effect.

Chapter 624, Statutes of 2001

AB 273* (Nakano-D) Private mortgage insurance deduction

Allows first-time homebuyers to deduct their private mortgage insurance payments.

(In Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)

AB 584 (Cox-R) Alien insurers: issuance of securities

Allows foreign or alien insurers to sell stock to fire and casualty broker-agents without obtaining a permit from the State Insurance Commissioner if certain conditions are met.

Chapter 415, Statutes of 2001

AB 683* (Calderon-D) Insurance: surplus line broker gross premium tax

Excludes from surplus line brokers, for purposes of the installment payment of the gross premium tax, gross premiums paid for finite risk coverage for environmental remediation.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 931 (Frommer-D) State Insurance Commissioner

Prohibits the State Insurance Commissioner from accepting, using, or benefiting from travel reimbursements or payment made to the commissioner or the Department of Insurance from specified entities.

Chapter 336, Statutes of 2001

Similar legislation is AB 1384 (Cox-R) which is in Senate Insurance Committee.

AB 1178 (Calderon-D) Insurance: senior citizens

Imposes the requirements of the Senior Insurance Law on direct-marketed health insurance products, and also extends by 90 days the July 1, 2001 deadline for compliance with long-term care insurance law.

Chapter 51, Statutes of 2001

AB 1180 (Calderon-D) Commercial insurers

Requires commercial insurers' and workers' compensation insurers to provide a premium and a loss history report within ten business days of a written request authorized by the insured, when the policy is canceled or renewed or other conditions exist.

Chapter 102, Statutes of 2001

AB 1183* (Calderon-D) California Insurance Guarantee Association

Allows the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) to increase the premium paid by member companies from the current one percent of net direct written premium to two percent thereby triggering, upon CIGA board approval, an increase in the workers' compensation premium, and requires new audits of CIGA for a time period of one year.

Chapter 296, Statutes of 2001

AB 1193 (Steinberg-D) Insurers: hate crimes: cancellation

Prohibits insurers from canceling or refusing to renew a policy of a religious or educational organization or other nonprofit organization organized and operated for religious, charitable, or educational purposes solely on the basis that one or more claims has been made as a result of a hate crime committed against the person or property of the insured during the preceding five years.

Chapter 253, Statutes of 2001

AB 1451 (Liu-D) Long-term care insurance

Requires the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish, until January 1, 2004, a Long-Term Care Financing Task Force and requires the task force to report to the Legislature by September 1, 2002, on alternatives to long-term care insurance for individuals to finance long-term care.

Vetoed by the Governor

AB 1727 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance Commissioner: confidential documents

Establishes provisions regulating retail sales practices, solicitations, advertising, and offers of any insurance product or annuity to a consumer by a depository institution, or any person engaged in those activities at the office of a depository institution or on behalf of a depository institution. Revises the provisions governing the State Insurance Commissioner or the State Department of Insurance. Provides that the commissioner may share and receive specified confidential documents, information, or materials with or from certain other regulatory and law enforcement entities and agencies subject to an agreement to maintain confidentiality.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1728 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance

Provides that the Bureau of Fraudulent Claims in the State Department of Insurance is to be known as the Fraud Division of the State Department of Insurance. Provides that provisions regulating viatical settlements to any person entering into or soliciting viatical settlements. Requires confidentiality of the home addresses of investigative personnel in the State Department of Insurance.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

AB 1732 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Insurance premium financing corporations

Repeals the Industrial Loan Law and enacts the Insurance Premium Finance Law, pursuant to which the Commissioner of Financial Institutions would license and regulate insurance premium financing corporations, which are in the business of advancing money directly or indirectly to an insurer or insurance producer at the request of an insured pursuant to the terms of a premium finance agreement.

(At Assembly Desk)

AB 1733 (Assembly Insurance Committee) Title insurance

Provides that in the absence of case law applying or interpreting a statute governing title insurers, the commissioner shall use the past official actions, rules, practices, correspondence, documents, or other working procedures of the State Department of Insurance in order to interpret and apply that statute.

(In Assembly Insurance Committee)

Index (in Bill Order)